The cabinet of the President of the United States includes senior officials of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States of America , appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of the Senate .
The institute is associated with the name of the first US President George Washington , who at the end of the 18th century formed an office of four persons close to him: US Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson , Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton , Secretary of War Henry Knox and Attorney General Edmund Randolph , so that they along with Vice President John Adams , assisted in the discharge of his duties.
With the exception of the US Attorney General and former US General Postmaster , all cabinet members — heads of central government — are called “Secretaries,” which corresponds to the ministerial position in the US government. In Russian-language literature, the term “minister” is used; the exception is the position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which is translated literally as " US Secretary of State ." Nominees for the cabinet are proposed by the President of the United States and submitted to the US Senate for approval by a simple majority. If the appointment to the post is approved by the Senate, then they take an oath , after which they begin to fulfill their duties. A number of important officials of the executive branch of the US federal government, such as the Director of National Intelligence , the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency , must also be approved by the Senate, [1] [2] but are not considered members of the Cabinet or officials in the rank of members of the Cabinet.
Currently, the cabinet includes 15 ministers, who are led by the following ministries: Agriculture (Department of Agriculture, USDA), Trade (Department of Commerce, DOC), Defense (Department of Defense, DOD), Education (Department of Education, ED) Department of Energy and Human Services (HHS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) , Justice (Department of Justice, DOJ), labor (Department of labor, DOL), the Department of State (Department of State, DOS), Interior (Department of the Interior, DOI) , the Federal ie the Treasury (Department of the Treasury), transport (Department of Transportation, DOT) Veterans Affairs (Department of Veterans Affairs, VA) .
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Current Cabinet
| Position | First and last name | Picture | Date of taking office |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Vice President | Mike Pence | January 20, 2017 | |
| Cabinet Ministers | |||
| Secretary of State | Mike Pompeo | April 26, 2018 | |
| Minister of Finance | Stephen Mnuchin | February 13, 2017 | |
| Minister of Defense | James mattis | January 20, 2017 | |
| Attorney General | Jeff Sessions | February 9, 2017 | |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Ryan Zinke | March 1, 2017 | |
| Minister of Agriculture | Sonny Purdue | April 25, 2017 | |
| Minister of Commerce | Wilbur Ross | February 28, 2017 | |
| Minister of Labor | Alexander Acosta | April 28, 2017 | |
| Minister of Health and Human Services | Alex Hazard | January 29, 2018 | |
| Minister of Housing and Urban Development | Ben Carson | March 2, 2017 | |
| Minister of Transport | Elaine Chao | January 31, 2017 | |
| Minister of Energy | Rick perry | March 2, 2017 | |
| Minister of education | Betsy Devos | February 7, 2017 | |
| Minister of Veterans Affairs | Robert Wilkie | March 28, 2018 | |
| Minister of Homeland Security | Kirsten Nielsen | December 6, 2017 | |
| Officials in the rank of members of the Cabinet who are not members of the Cabinet | |||
| The head of the White House apparatus | John Kelly | July 31, 2017 | |
| U.S. Sales Representative | Robert Lighthizer | May 15, 2017 | |
| Director of National Intelligence | Dan Coates | March 16, 2017 | |
| US Permanent Representative to the United Nations | Nikki Haley | January 27, 2017 | |
| Director of Administration and Budget | Mick Mulvaney | February 16, 2017 | |
| Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | Gina Haspel | May 17, 2018 | |
| Environmental Protection Agency Administrator | Scott Prewitt | February 17, 2017 | |
| Small Business Administration Administrator | Linda McMan | February 14, 2017 | |
See also
- US Cabinet List
- Cabinet of the United Kingdom
Sources
- Rudalevige, Andrew. “The President and the Cabinet,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System , 8th ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006).
- Grossman, Mark. Encyclopedia of the United States Cabinet (three volumes). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2000. ISBN 0-87436-977-0 . A history of the United States and Confederate States cabinets, their secretaries, and their departments.
- Bennett, Anthony. 'The American President's Cabinet' Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1996. ISBN 0-333-60691-4 . A study of the US Cabinet from Kennedy to Clinton.